openSuse 11.2 milestone 1 is ready for download
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I haveeee been testing 11.2 for some time now as alpha 0
my ati m200 functions quite well using the radeon driver in fact
better than the proprietary ati drivers from amd on openSuse 11.1
overall response time is improved
I think I will give it a try by installing “milestone 1” as xVM virtual-machine guest, onto my oS-11.1 host.
…Curiosity killed the cat! 
I gave it a try and had problems installing at first with the default grub installation settings.
I’ve been running 11.2 Alpha0 on a test machine for some time. Will a zypper dup get me this milestone?
Yes if you use widehat.opensuse.org/factory-snapshot/repo/ and not the normal Factory repository.
There is nothing exciting about yet. Only new things i found were new capabilities of YaST (new icon by the way ;)) old Firefox, new kernel, just some updated packages.
I got it using yast, I think, I switch between zypper up zypper dup and yast so much I forget what I used but nest time you update you should be on milestone one
right now I installed into a usb hrd drive and am presently using that
Yeah exactly! Finally, we’ve got there a brand new Yastie logo/icon. And what’s wrong about “new kernel and some updated packages” ? lol! I was looking forward to them - especially latest kernel flavour 2.6.29 did it plus the biggest advantage for me is that I do not have to download those messy KDE 4 updates since last openSUSE 11.1 release with my bandwith limited wireless broadband. Anyway, thanks guys for the release. 
I installed the milestone 1 today. Seems to work pretty well, no stability issues or apps crashing. There’s no option to add repos in YaST but zypper works fine for that. I was able to burn a cd with k3b (KDE4) for the first time. It still doesn’t work with 11.1.
I downloaded and burned the DVD, and also the KDE4 live CD. I then booted from the liveCD, and was pleasantly surprised to find the liveCD ran reasonably well on my “sandbox” PC.
My sandbox PC is an athlon-1100 (w/1GB RAM) and currently a nVidia 8400GS (512MB) PCI card (not PCI-e) and my new 25.5" TFT monitor (connected via a hardware KVM to my main PC).
I did not like the size of the panel at the bottom, so I started playing with that to adjust it. I’m not a KDE4 user (I still use KDE-3.5.10) and in less than a dozen seconds or so, I managed to crash what might have been plasma … not sure … but whatever, it appeared to start up again. So I decided to leave well enough alone, and go on to look at some other aspects.
The next thing I noted was the PC’s Ethernet card (for my LAN and internet access) was not automatically identified as there was no LAN nor Internet access. Typically this card is identified automatically on this sandbox PC. So I then went to YaST (where I noted YaST has what I think is an Aardvark symbol ! ) only to find that one does not adjust the network card via YaST but rather one is to use the Network Manager … now this may be the way things are in 11.1, so its likely nothing new in 11.2, but it was new to me 
Fortunately the Network Manager had a symbol on the Panel at the bottom of the KDE4 screen, and after a handful of seconds (less than a minute) of fumbling with that, I had LAN access and an Internet connection. Firefox worked.
Sound worked immediately (this old PC has a VIA 8233A w/ALC650D which has been around for a long time).
I ran out of time, but I decided there was enough functionality for me to test it further, so later this week I’ll likely install this 11.2 milestone-1 on my sandbox PC from the DVD I burned, replacing a Fedora-10 install that I had been playing with previous.
A further comment on this. Typically I do not start playing with openSUSE pre-releases until Beta-1 or an Alpha-5 or Alpha-6.
I think this Milestone-1 corresponds to an earlier alpha, and hence I was pleasantly surprised at its stability (despite there being bugs) for such an early version. Possibly a positive sign of the new way they do things on openSUSE.
If so, we probably need to push to get many users (especially those who love to complain) to test and write bug reports.
Well start having bugs when kde 4.3 will join factory repo, then we’ll have some BUGs 
Otherwise it’s like 11.1 with new kernel, updated YaST modules (and icon!! ), someone spotted anything else??
Anyway, i’m really thinking of running this release full time 
P.S. Oh sosry, 11.1 officially has only KDE 4.1.3 yet i treat it like 4.2.2 is normal 
BenderBendingRodriguez wrote:
> Well start having bugs when kde 4.3 will join factory repo, then we’ll
> have some BUGs
>
> Otherwise it’s like 11.1 with new kernel, updated YaST modules (and
> icon!! ), someone spotted anything else??
>
> Anyway, i’m really thinking of running this release full time
I’m getting a NULL pointer message on bootup. It doesn’t seem to do much harm
except that the machine will not shut down. I’m running 32-bit 11.2 in a
VirtualBox 2.2.0 VM with 64-bit 11.1 as the host. The kernel oops is as follows:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: <c013052a>] do_exit+0x0/0x272
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 #1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/module/usbcore/sections/__verbose_strings
Modules linked in: preloadtrace(N) ohci_hcd rtc_cmos rtc_core rtc_lib ehci_hcd
usbcore sd_mod crc_t10dif edd at
a_piix ahci libata scsi_mod ext3 mbcache jbd fan thermal processor thermal_sys hwmon
Supported: Yes
Pid: 712, comm: usleep Tainted: G N (2.6.29-6-default #1) VirtualBox
EIP: 0060:<c013052a>] EFLAGS: 00010346 CPU: 0
EIP is at do_exit+0x0/0x272
EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: efa38030
ESI: 00000000 EDI: 08048530 EBP: ee3bdf94 ESP: ee3bdf85
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0069
Process usleep (pid: 712, ti=ee3bc000 task=efa38030 task.ti=ee3bc000)
Stack:
c0000000 00ee3854 30000000 a8080485 14ee3bdf 00c01308 94000000 30bfd35f
b0080485 4eee3bdf 00c01308 e2ee3bc0 00c01046 00000000 f4000000 94b7fe6f
30bfd35f f8080485 fcbfd35e 7b000000 7b000000 00000000 fc000000 22000000
Call Trace:
Inexact backtrace:
Code: 81 05 80 09 5b c0 00 00 00 01 fb 66 66 66 90 66 66 66 90 90 43 75 10 89 f0
e8 77 f0 ff ff eb 07 bb fe ff
ff ff eb ad 5b 5e 5d c3 <cc> 89 e5 57 56 53 89 c3 83 ec 04 64 8b 35 00 d0 60 c0
89 f0 e8
EIP: <c013052a>] do_exit+0x0/0x272 SS:ESP 0069:ee3bdf85
— end trace 6bd1277f8eefbbf8 ]—
I’m off to find a place to file bug reports.
Larry
Are You using the OSE version of VirtualBox or the one from SUN’s website?
Attempting to obtain the openSUSE-DVD-Build0066-x86_64.iso via torrent:
downloading almost stopped at 99%; very slow progress from here, DL rate is around 100 b/sec!
First md5 verification on this uncompleted torrent of course returns a wrong md5sum.
I am using Monsoon 0.20 :\
Bad luck … If everyone who downloaded would seed it probably would not be so bad. I only downloaded the 32-bit KDE CD and 32-bit DVD, and I’m only seeding those two.
I note you are trying to get the openSUSE-DVD-Build0066-x86_64.iso
I’m at work currently, but I checked 7 hours ago (just when I left home) and I was seeding at 80 KB/sec. What we need is everyone who has downloaded, to contribute and also upload/seed.
Well i’m seeding at 90kB/s between 12:00 and 00:00
and 180kB between 00:00 and 12:00
Right now i can see three leechers (one from germany sucking it really fast!), one from brazil and one from france
P.S. Seeding is one, other is downloading 2 GB updates (i changed all my 11.1 repos to Factory repos and left Packman 11.1 )
BenderBendingRodriguez wrote:
> Are You using the OSE version of VirtualBox or the one from SUN’s
> website?
The one from Sun’s website.
Mmmm hot off the press. Downloaded (http) and burned. The install process was definitely a lot easier. The first configuration proposed to install over my / partition and then mount my /home partition without formating it. Brilliant!
Otherwise everything else pretty much runs the same. The new Yast icon was pretty sweet. The only problems I had were with my graphics card. Intel 945GM. 11.0 and 11.1 played nicely with it, without me having to do anything. 11.2 milestone 1 was very choppy on my computer. I’m not sure what I’d have to tweak or install to solve this so I probably won’t get to playing around with it until after this semester is over. It’s finals week!
Ian
Probably the Brazilian leecher was me 
I will try again this night, when I will come back home.
My local time is GMT-4
Hi oldcpu!
I would like to test the 64 bit version, just to be closer to my platform.
Cheers!